Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:39:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asus P2L97 motherboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980202113833.11259O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801312353.RAA21911@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > > According to the web page, it is Adaptec 7880 Ultra SCSI based, not NCR. > > > > Asus must have changed their mind then -- they were (are) selling NCR > > controllers with older boards. > > I've never heard of modern NCR/Symbios chips on the MB from anyone but > Apple, but that doesn't mean anthing other than I've only seen Adaptec > on the specs for PC MB's. > > As cheap as the NCR/Symbios PCI cards are, one would think the chips > are so cheap a MB designer couldn't resist. > > Asus is an excellent source of NCR/Symbios PCI SCSI cards. Maybe that's > what Doug was thinking of? I figured, scine they sell the SC-200, they'd bought into the NCR chips wholesale for the boards too. Guess I was wrong. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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